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Weezer - Pork and Beans

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It features many YouTube stars and Internet memes, including:

  1. Gary Brolsma in Numa Numa.
  2. Matt McAllister
  3. Mark Allen Hicks ("Afro Ninja"),
  4. Chris Crocker in Leave Britney Alone.
  5. Caitlin Upton
  6. Judson Laipply
  7. Kicesie
  8. Tay Zonday in Chocolate Rain.
  9. Kevin Federline
  10. K-Fed Popozao
  11. Liam Kyle Sullivan on Shoes
  12. Ryan Weiber vs. Michael "Dorkman" Scott
  13. Jeong-Hyun Lim
  14. Star Wars kid
  15. Dramatic Prairie Dog
  16. lookalikes of J-Pop group Mini Moni
  17. Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz's Diet Coke and Mentos eruptions
  18. parody G.I. Joe PSAs
  19. catching Raybans with one's face
  20. Free Hugs Campaign
  21. Dancing Banana
  22. Will It Blend?
  23. All Your Base Are Belong to Us
  24. One Man Band by Connor Berge
  25. Daft Hands
  26. Daft Bodies
  27. the Sneezing Panda
  28. Soulja Boy dance a CGI
  29. Donald Duck and King Kong
  30. Charlie the Unicorn
  31. Miss Teen USA 2007 South Carolina “Answers” a Question
  32. the UFO sighting in Haiti Hoax video.

Now, it's been really easy for people to target geeks on youtube: make a video full of internet stars and cameo appeaerances, and it will go viral, right? Wrong. This video has much more to it. First of all the song is great. As the LS Times states, on the surface, Weezer’s quirky new “Pork and Beans” video, which has helped create a wave of buzz for the band’s new album, is just another example of how to make a good viral video. You take an idea that people are going to talk about, mix in some famous faces, throw in an embarrassing moment or two, and watch as your firework climbs, explodes, and inevitably fades out.

But “Pork and Beans” is more than just another drop in the viral bucket. In a way that no work of culture has previously done, the video weaves a masterful tapestry of Internet “memes,” bringing together the oddball shorthands of web culture with many of the oddballs who created them. Director Mathew Cullen managed to wrangle a dozen of YouTube’s most recognizable viral stars and bring them all onto one surreal soundstage. The result – a chorus of voices singing about how they refuse to be ridiculed, judged or labeled – is unexpectedly compelling, and even literary.

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